Hey, I'm Xaereth, welcome to Delusions of Grandeur! This is a blog dedicated (mostly) to competitive play in miniature gaming, mostly about 40k and some other stuff mixed in. We have a couple writers now (Xaereth and Spaguatyrine), both of whom attend multiple GTs every year, and even enjoy a modicum of success from time to time. Enjoy your stay!

Friday, November 4, 2011

This Weekend is Feast of Blades...

...and I'm the defending champion. For at least 1 more day. I'll write more about it below. For now, read my apathetic ponderings/excuse-mongerings. I can't promise that they'll be entertaining or anything. But, I'm not a terrible writer, so it should be at least palatable.

heh, it's no secret that I haven't been as active on the blog this week as I'd like to be. I think I got one up on Monday, and have epic failed every other day. Sorry, ready to hear my awesome excuse?

Well, it starts with me being an English major in my final real semester. That is to say that I only have a single class next semester, and then I graduate and go to Law/MPA School (dual program, /shudder). So, I have classes like "Advanced Creative Writing", "The Sonnet Capstone", and... "Critical [something?] to Modern Literature: Science Fiction?"

Lol, suffice to say I'm writing a lot. Like, a ton. Today just for school I've written 13 double-spaced pages. Today isn't even a bad day. I have peer critiques on stories, huge papers, response papers, group forum work, the list goes on. So, writing the blog, while still enjoyable, sort of makes my fingers ache a little bit.***

I've been slowly plugging away at the Nova Open report, which is nearing completion (always enjoyable to be reminded of a meltdown after an extremely promising start), and doing other stuff in a 40k manner.

Like, I didn't tell anyone about it, but I got a sponsor. Well, sort of. It's not really even a sponsor, in the literal sense. Or is it? I'm kinda new to this stuff. The way it works is this: I get to post a pre-tournament list analysis for big events (on his site), then text my various game reports to the guy, who posts them up on his site. Then I write a batrep w/ pictures on his site, and he makes it worth my while. I won't get into compensation, since I don't really think it's necessary :-p

The name of the website is Equinox Hobbies, and I've apparently joined the team. I'll be covering Feast of Blades, so check over there for the various updates! Thanks to Timmah, for giving me this opportunity :)

Also, I got in an internets fight. Well, not a big one. It made me laugh though. Here's a fun link.

It's a few comments down. You'll find it easy enough.

Actually, it wasn't really a fight. I just got tired of people being negative for no reason there. Is Goatboy hurting someone by posting his stuff? People don't have to like his stuff, but you can do what I do when Mercer posts something on BoLS: just don't read it.

I had way more "likes" than him though, so I guess I won :-p

Today, my friend Richard (not Angry Richard) and I will be unleashing Large Base Spam on the super-competitive Team Tournament meta. Here's the lists: